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3/30/2016

Kamasi Washington feels like jazz’s first crossover star in a long
time, and certainly like the first in a while who found fame without
smoothing out the wilder edges of his sound. And now he’s gotten to the
point where he can play his funky saxophone freakouts on public
television. Last week, as Pitchfork points out, Washington was a guest on the PBS talk show Charlie Rose.
On the show, he talked a bit about the connections between jazz and
hip-hop. And he and his band also performed “Re Run” and “The Rhythm
Changes,” two of the songs from Washington’s massive 2015 triple album The Epic. Watch the whole 20-minute segment below.